horizon3ai Staff Backend Engineer on the Admin Experience team providing technical leadership for NodeZero’s account administration capabilities. Lead architecture and implementation of backend services and APIs.
Responsibilities
As a Staff Backend Engineer on the Admin Experience team, you’ll provide hands-on technical leadership for NodeZero’s account administration capabilities. You’ll shape how services and APIs support user access, parent-child account controls, account settings, and related capabilities such as roles, access controls, and audit logs. You’ll lead complex changes to account and authorization models, helping teams preserve secure tenant boundaries while making administration easier for customers. You’ll remain hands-on in implementation and partner across Product and Engineering to set durable technical direction and improve production readiness.
Set technical direction for backend services and APIs supporting user access, account hierarchies, settings, and administration workflows.
Lead architecture and implementation of cross-cutting work involving authorization, tenant boundaries, and safe evolution of customer account models.
Remain hands-on in production code while guiding design decisions, technical tradeoffs, and delivery across the team.
Raise standards for API quality, testing, security, observability, rollout practices, and operational readiness.
Partner with Product and adjacent teams to align interfaces and keep administration capabilities consistent across NodeZero.
Mentor and influence engineers through design reviews, code reviews, pairing, and clear technical documentation.
Help diagnose complex production issues and drive improvements that prevent recurrence.
What You’ll Bring
Ability to lead through ambiguity, break down broad problems, and align multiple teams around a practical technical direction.